TORONTO -- Hours before the Mariners boarded their charter flight to Toronto on Sunday, James Paxton was asked if it still meant something special to pitch in his native country.
Paxton lives in Wisconsin in the offseason, near his wife's family. He's spent most of the rest of his adult life as a resident of Seattle, just a few hours south of British Columbia, where he grew up with his parents in the small town of Ladner, about 15 miles south from where his mom, Barb Paxton, owns a fabric store called the Cloth Shop on Granville Island in Vancouver.